Donald Trump, ‘Brexit,’ Angela Merkel: Your Thursday Briefing

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• Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain sharpened her initially muted response to President Trump’s remarks on far-right protests in the United States. There was “no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them,” she said.

The government has portrayed the highest-ranking corruption trial in decades as a success in its efforts to root out graft. But Mr. Ulyukayev said he had been framed by the head of Rosneft, who is a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.

Another trial begins in Moscow: Relatives of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, demand to know how he died in Soviet captivity.

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•For the first time, a witness in the hacking of the U.S. presidential election has emerged in Ukraine. The malware expert is only known by his online alias, “Profexer.” The Ukrainian police said he turned himself in this year, and he has now become a witness for the F.B.I.

There is no evidence that Profexer worked, at least knowingly, for Russia’s intelligence services, but his malware apparently did.

Above, Democratic Party offices in Washington, which U.S. officials say were a target of Russian cyberattacks.

Separately, the Russian government’s nomination of Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, to Rosneft’s board has become another headache for Mr. Schulz. “I wouldn’t do that,” he said of Mr. Schröder, his party’s longtime leader.

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Today is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Marcus Garvey, above, a founder of the black nationalist movement and a Rastafari prophet.

Born in Jamaica, Garvey throughout his life advocated that black people return to Africa and reclaim it as their own.

“He was the first man to give Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1965.

But in preaching his message, Garvey unintentionally spawned a religion when he said: “Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.”

In 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen — known thereafter as Haile Selassie — ascended to Ethiopia’s throne, which was taken as a fulfillment of Garvey’s words. Rastafarians immediately hailed Selassie as Jah, the Black Messiah.

Garvey was not a follower himself, but Rastafari spread across the globe several decades later with the help of reggae musicians, most prominently Bob Marley.